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Proposal
It will be useful to Urdu internet user to report news from worldwide. Approximately, there are 270 million of speakers worldwide. I strongly feel it deserves its own Wikinews.--Chowdhury 18:42, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Discussion
Arguments in favour
SupportSupport Its a good initiative and i positively recomends Urdu wikinews, Azamishaque 11:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support -- Currently, the Urdu Wikipedia has more than 64,000 articles and more than 80 users are working. I recommend that Urdu Wikinews may kindly be started. - Rehmat Aziz Chitrali 07:30, 13 September 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support It'll contribute Urdu Wiki some actuality.--Kafkasmurat (talk) 12:03, 2 November 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support -- As we can see Urdu Wikipedia has more than 64000 articles in January,2015. So I think This project should be approved because there is a large number of Urdu audience .--عثمان خان شاہ (talk) 11:09, 15 January 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support-- The project should be started, it will grow fast in Domain instead of test-project.--عثمان خان شاہ (talk) 17:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support It is 100% eligible to have its own Wikinews. thanks TheStrayDog (talk) 12:56, 10 July 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Arguments against
Oppose Currently, the Urdu Wikipedia has less than 10,000 articles and only 66 users with edits or log actions last month. I don't think it's enough to sustain activity on Wikinews in this language. While certainly not every user of Wikinews contributes to Wikipedia and vice versa, still the practice shows that Wikinews are much less active than Wikipedias in their languages. Another difference is that on Wikipedia you can create a stub and leave it, and then someone will stumble upon it and improve it. But on Wikinews there must alway be a certain number of fresharticles, otherwise the project will be useless. I don't believe the there are enough Urdu users to keep the proposed project alive. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 19:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose. Wikinews is a project which requires constant update and new articles should be reviewed and published immediately, which in fact requires a large no. of editors. There is no proof that it will be able to overcome the hurdles faced by the English Wikinews. Please take a look at an article published in the Wikipedia Signposthere. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 05:48, 19 July 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Currently 20.04% of the MediaWiki messages and 1.68% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Localising the "most used messages" first has the biggest impact on the usability of Wikis in Urdu. Thanks, GerardM 08:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
